"That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting."

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Source : Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin

Tracy Chevalier

#Hunting Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.”
“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
“Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.”
“A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.”
“From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.”
“A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.”
“I don't mean to sound immodest, but I never had any doubt that I'd be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was told she would be a star.”
“Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.”

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